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Windows Live Translator updated

The MS Research Machine Translation team has released an updated version of Windows Live Translator. The UI has been tweaked a bit here and there but we have not found any new features. Some people have reported that the …

The new Live Search Products is here!

Following an extremely long period of inactivity (in fact, the team blog‘s last post was back in April 2007), Live Search Products has finally been updated along with the latest wave of Live Search releases. We’ve always thought …

Live Maps part 2: Export Collections to Nav device

In part one of this little series on new features of Live Maps, Steve Lombardi, a Live Maps program manager, showed us around Live Maps Collections, and MapCruncher.  In the second part, we’ll talk about exporting a Live Maps …

Microsoft Announces Changes for Accessing Hotmail with Outlook Express

Important news if you currently access your Windows Live Hotmail with Outlook Express, come June 30th. this will no longer be possible.

A change is coming for users that access Hotmail with Outlook Express. Outlook Express uses a protocol called

New search.live.com homepage

glyph New elements of Live Search continue to roll out, the latest at http://search.live.com.  After an email notification this afternoon regarding a new page at my.live.com (which doesn’t seem to be live yet), where the personalized pages first started by …

Microsoft switches personalised live.com homepage to my.live.com

In an email sent out to Windows Live users, Microsoft today announced that from mid-April, personalised Live.com pages will be available from http://my.live.com. Just last week, the title of the page switched to “Windows Live Personalized Experience”, suggesting that …

Albany Beta launches today, what is it?

Microsoft launches Albany Beta today, but what is it? The name reveals nothing. “Albany” is the codename for a new all-in-one subscription service of essential software and services for consumers. It consists of Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007

I’m Initiative Participants Select UNICEF as Top Charity in First Year of Microsoft’s Initiative

Remember I’m making a difference? Now a year has passed we get to know some of the results. The Initiative has raised $1.3 million in total.

"The generous support and passion of our Windows Live Messenger customers participating in

Live Maps with Steve Lombardi: Part 1 – Explore Collections and Mapcruncher

The newest release of Live Maps last week introduced some pretty cool new features, and we thought it would be fun to have Steve Lombardi, a Program Manager for Live Maps, take us on a little tour.  In this first …

Windows Live Hotmail “CAPTCHA” security compromised; bot attacks in 6 seconds or less, according to security blog

Via Ars Technica

The Websense Security Labs blog is reporting that a new bot threat is capable of defeating the Windows Live Hotmail CAPTCHA security measure, and can break that code in less than 6 seconds, create new accounts, and …